Kuso

 Well, stop the search. This year's prestigious "The Fuck Did I just Watch?" award goes to...

 Kuso is an unhinged, deeply bizarre surrealist comedy in the vein of Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim's Awesome Show by way of body horror.
 And if that doesn't tell you anything, well, congratulations: that puts you one peg closer to normalcy. Tim and Eric are a couple of anti-comedians who do purposefully tacky, off-putting shows for Adult Swim that try to recreate the most cringe-inducing, crappiest lows of public access television.

This film's the brain-child of Rapper Flying Lotus (Steve Ellison), who's obviously a fan of Tim and Eric, and whose music has featured in some Adult Swim shows. It's a series of alternating vignettes set in a plague-ridden Los Angeles where reality was disrupted in weird ways by a series of earthquakes.

 (I'm going to go into the film in some detail now. Kuso goes all-out in an attempt to offend and/or disgust, and absolutely revels in bad taste... so, well, be warned. It qualifies as a pretty extreme movie.)

Wait, George Clinton does what now?

  Does the Phrase 'David Cronenberg porn' sound amusing to you? The man himself has gotten close to pornography a few times in his own, clinical way -he certainly never shied away from sexual themes- but this movie gets explicit with it. I won't spoil it, but that's basically the most apt description for the punchline to one of the stories here.

 A more concrete example: There's a subplot where a man gets cured of his crippling fear of boobs (mastophobia?) by drinking the juices from an insect residing in George Clinton's gaping anus.
 Yes. George Clinton. The man's a legend. And yes, we get a perspective shot from within Clinton's bowels, looking out his sphincter; Bless this movie for giving me the chance to write that sentence.

 And here are some more bits, out of context: people jam things in their dickholes. Insects get bitten in half. A bloody, recently aborted fetus gets thrown around like a football. A dead child is used on a throwaway gag. All sorts of bodily fluids get thrown around and smeared on people.
 It's all purposely pretty fake-looking and over the top, so it can still be funny... But even so  some of the stuff still made a little queasy. 

 Stylistically most of the stories are live action on a shoestring budget, but there are a few cheap-looking CGI interludes and some pretty creative Terry Gilliam-esque collages (he gets name-checked via a big-ass book on a shelf early on).

 I won't go into detail on all the 'plots'; In case you're interested, here's a Wikipedia entry that goes pretty in-depth into them (and explains some unnecessary details I completely missed while watching.)
 Some of the skits are followed up on, and three or so narrative threads emerge - don't expect a proper story out of them, but they do build up to something approximating a punchline, and some of them are even funny. All are creative as hell, but there's a fairly low hit ratio for the material - which will probably be lower for most people, and higher for those that prefer to chemically enhance their movie watching (the Adult Swim crowd will be happy).

 The effect the whole thing has is hard to describe. I'm not a fan of the style but it did make me laugh several times; when it's funny, it's really fucking funny, and that makes it infinitely better to me than its most obvious inspirations.
 There were long barren stretches that were a bit of an endurance test, though. It's not just that there's a (sometimes literal) shitload of gross-out... well, some of it is humour, and that it's actively unpleasant in every possible way it can conceive of.

 My issue is that a lot of it is weird for weirdness's sake - but not that interesting. And while the bizarre imagery and concatenation of ideas kept me from fast-forwarding through any of it, this is not something I'd enjoy sitting through again to expose my friends to it the way I routinely do with... I dunno, Boxer's Omen.

 Ellison directs and has a writer credit on all of the segments. Rapper Zack Fox co-wrote the funniest short (the one with George Clinton's ass bug). David Firth, he of Salad Fingers fame, collaborated with Ellison on the weirdest one - guess that won't surprise anyone.

 I should probably say some nice things about the music and sound design. While there are a few random fart and shitting sounds that kind of work against the movie's... ah hell, let's call it spell- the music side of things is very well made. I can't claim to know any Ellison's stuff, but he got Aphex Twin and Akira Yamaoka working on the soundtrack, and I really enjoyed what they all did on that front. My favorite detail comes during a hilarious turn by, um, Lexington Steele -dunno him from anywhere, no sir!- where his lines are underscored by short staccato strings; a bizarre, funny touch I genuinely loved.

 Oh, and since we're listing actors now: Tim Heidecker puts in a short appearance, waving his pasty white bum at the camera as usual. Rapper Busdriver also does a very cool, pretty funny number at the beginning with some great practical effects.

 So yeah, your mileage will very much vary on this one. I suspect you'll know whether you'll like it -whether you can like it, maybe- going in.